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Top 10 hacker tools of 2015

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Every task requires a good set of tools. This because having right tools in hand one can save much of its energy and time. In the world of Cyber Hacking (“Cyber Security” formally) there are millions of tools which are available on the Internet either as Freewares or as Sharewares. If you are security researcher, pentester or a system admin, you need to have this on your PCs/laptops to find the vulnerabilities and plug them.  Concise Courses conducted an online poll to determine top ten hacking tools out of some of the famous ones. Here is the list which came out the winner on the poll. 1. Nmap:  Network Mapper Abbreviated as nmap is a versatile tool for Network Security, plus it is free and open source. It  is largely used by network administrators for network discovery and security auditing.  System admins use nmap for network inventory, determining open ports, managing service upgrade schedules,  and monitoring host (A term used for ...